I suspect most people aren’t subbing/following communities on Lemmy. So post the community or topic you want to see pop off. And reader(that’s you) if you are interested in that community click the link and follow it.
👏Let’s 👏 start 👏 coordinating 👏 people.
Not one community specifically, but I really wish that communities about sports - specifically American football - were more active. I really miss that from the other place.
I am doing my best to get activity going on the nfl and lacrosse instances.
I’ll try to start contributing to the NFL community.
Keep it up. I don’t much care about off-season news or anything, but I’ll probably join the discussion when it comes to highlights and game threads. These upcoming seasons for each sport will play a big part in how active the community will be going forward I think. Unfortunately a bunch of traffic was dominated by the presidential election last year so other niche topics should gain more traction this year.
The NBA community ([email protected]) is small but decently active. We had live game threads for the playoffs but it was like 5 people commenting lol. It was still fun though, and hopefully it grows more.
That’s how we get it started. 5 people active on live game thread leads people to see ‘oh, when it’s live there is a group hanging out here’ next time you’ll have 7 then 12 then 30. Keep it up!
That’s the one sub I’ll still peek in now and then. Especially since my guys won it this year. Lol.
Thunder up!
American exceptionalism strikes once again.
How? Because somebody likes something? That isn’t American exceptionalism.
I highlighted it because obviously you’re extremely stupid:
How does liking gridiron football equate to believing the US is exemplary or better than other nations? Or maybe you think the definition of American exceptionalism is, “Likes something American”. Calling people dumb because you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about isn’t a good look.
Saying you want sports communities then hyper-focusing on American sports is exceptionalism.
There is a small percentage of the Lemmy population that is American, the great majority is European.
No one here cares for American football or the NFL. So why create a community? Because they think we care. Simple as. It’s believing that Americans are at the centre of the universe once again 🙄.
Haven’t seen writingprompts in a while, really liked that one.
Short answer: All of them.
My Community Wish List:
Creative Communities
[email protected] - All things creative to share
[email protected] - Team up with someone or a group of people and write something together.
[email protected] - A casual space for writers to talk, post, or discuss anything.
Educational/Informative Communities
Positive News Communities
Humor/Funny Communities
[email protected] - Watch Comedy
[email protected] - Read Comedy
[email protected] - a.k.a. Awful Taste But Great Execution
edit: grammar
[email protected] 🧢👕👖👟🕺
not one single person wearing a street
🤣 be the change you want to see 😋
You’ve done a great job of propping it up. Sorry you haven’t gotten more help.
I don’t really belong there as a poster but have always enjoyed it as a reader.
Yeah, it’s frustrating to be in that position. Some communities I can post to, but some I only have comments to contribute.
<3
Subscribed!
Thanks!! 🤜🤛
Oh subbed thanks!
🙌
Liberal gun owners. (Don’t know how to link properly.)
https://old.lemmy.world/c/liberalgunowners
Such a great reddit community, or used to be. No toxic right-wing shit, just people showing off their builds and buys, asking questions, getting solid advice with no bullshit, talking laws and legal repercussions, linking timely news, loads of trans people posting. No judging! A new person could come in with the same damned question we’d covered 500 times. No problem! We’d all jump in and help.
Fuck I miss that place. It’s dead here. Also, I think there are a few people that go in there solely to downvote. Don’t know how to check logs, not interested enough to try, but it looks like assholes are trying to spoil it.
And FFS, NOW is the time left-minded Americans should be getting armed! Blacks, LGBTs and women have been the largest gun buying demographic for several years. They need help and they need a judgement free space to get it.
I was clear. I know it exists, it’s just dead and again, seems like there are some downvoting every post out of spite.
Join the moderation team and ban the persistent downvoters.
the sub probably blocks trolls. or deletes or bans them from the sub. alot of subs tend not to do it, so declines alot, hence the right wing push as the site as a whole. or it becomes too overzealous in moderation.
oh shit what uppp? on my way to federate
I think we need to get away from the short format brain rot media that is so popular today, like TikTok and Twitter/X. And light novels are familiar and approachable. Often, people have already seen the anime or seen the manga.
For that matter, even [email protected] could use more activity, and manga is even more approachable than light novels.
I recently started reading a lot of the LNs that are on “catch up” at a website called j-novel club, and it’s gotten me to enjoy reading novels more.
Also, the Ascendance of a Bookworm light novel is one of my favorite things I’ve ever read. It’s a pretty long one at 33 volumes, though.
I went there hoping to discuss korean web novels and they don’t allow it.
No idea why
No idea why
Because they are by definition different things. Close in style, sure, but so are YA novels.
Coming as a reddit refugee I just replicated their definition when creating the community. And I still feel the same way since it’s not a general “novel” community. If there’s a popular demand I’ll loose the restrictions.
Thanks for the response.
Considering that Lemmy is still growing I’d hope there would be a place to discuss all light novels in one place.
About a year ago maybe I made a post and it was taken down due to not being a japanese web novel.
Regardless of style “web novel” and “light novel” aren’t specific to a source country like manga and manwha are. So as a community restricting [email protected] to just japanese ones didn’t make sense. You could’ve done jnovels instead.
You’re doing it based off of writing style. You can make that call as a moderator but I just let it go and don’t discuss my reading with anyone still after leaving reddit.
One day maybe enough people break the rule in a month to open it up.
I think we need to get away from the short format brain rot media that is so popular today, like TikTok and Twitter/X.
As Myne in the sidebar states: “Y’all better start reading more books!” :)
I’d like more discussion in stock market or economy communities.
Same
I’m trying to start a mental health support community that’s skills based to hopefully help people who can’t afford or otherwise access professional therapy.
Here’s the wiki (the main page has a quickstart guide if you’re looking for some things you can do today even just to maybe help stabilize yourself a little)
Here’s a specific list of ways you can get involved with growing this community
When I first stumbled into Lemmy I kinda gravitated to the medical communities, but from day one they’ve all been pretty dead. Just added a couple more subs now prompted by this thread to see if there was an active one. Here’s what I’ve got in my collection:
…sorted all of them by Top: Month, and there are a grand total of maybe 20 posts spread over only three of the communities. One of those three only showed a single post; and a pretty even split on the remaining two. The rest of them were empty. It’s spread way too thin: I’ve only run into a few other medical peeps here on Lemmy - we don’t have 12 communities worth of material.
I kinda wish we’d merge them… which I know goes against the grain of how the fediverse is supposed to operate.
[email protected] and [email protected] were the two most active ones. Mander.xyz seems like a better home for medical talk, but the rules in the sidebar are far too strict for a community this size. [email protected] seems the best at the moment.
…and I’m 100% part of the problem I’m whining about. Outside of a couple introduction posts and questions for the community, I haven’t posted anything there either. I should.
This is great! I think the ones that get more subs will generally rise to the top and people will start congregating there.
I’m seeing a bunch of upvotes on peoples comments here. I’m hoping that those people are also subbing to the communities they see in here.
I’m gonna try to remember to post this kind of question maybe once a month and over time we’ll get communities popping off.
most of them are on reddit, and probably unaware that lemmy exists, plus there are still medical based forums out there too. probably hard to see out of the 50k users, which one will ask a medical based issue.
deleted by creator
I kinda wish we’d merge them… which I know goes against the grain of how the fediverse is supposed to operate.
Not necessarily:
One of the advantages of a decentralized platform like Lemmy is the ability to create parallel communities on the same topic. “You don’t like how a community is being moderated? Go to another instance and start your own community!” (with or without blackjack and hookers)
However, this is a double-edged sword. The creation of multiple communities on the same (or similar) topics can also fragment the userbase, leading to very sparsely populated communities.
I think it only makes sense to have multiple communities on the same topic if each version serves a specific niche or has a unique moderation style. I think most of the examples you’ve given would be suitable for consolidation into two or three communities.
More info on consolidating communities in the pinned thread on [email protected].
What are your thoughts?
I am seeing more and more activity lately on [email protected] which is awesome.
Scifi short stories are the only reason I go to Reddit anymore.
I’d like to see a community for cool stuff happening in NYC.
I’d like to see more stuff for organizing protests and resistance, also for the NYC area.
Same but for the Los Angeles area. There is one but it’s dead.
I’m mildly proud of the fact that the Mini Apple has a more active community than the Big Apple, lol.
[email protected], and I’m like half of that activity and it’s pretty dead. Make it, post, and maybe you’ll have more luck, but local communities are tough given the small userbase.
(We also have a Democratic Socialist running for mayor, good luck to both Mamdani and Fateh!)
I know. Biggest city in the country but we barely connect with each other on Lemmy. Anywhere in particular other than [email protected] ?
I’m not aware of any NYC communities, even inactive ones, on the fediverse, though I haven’t looked very hard. That link you provided errors out, if it’s supposed to work.
[email protected] is probably the best bet
voxpop.social has shutdown
Cool. I’ll subscribe, thanks
mine, but that is fine because its a niche topic.
I’d love to see the [email protected] community be more active. As it is, the dev communities here are far more quiet than they were on reddit.
[email protected] I miss venting with a bunch of other cooks on reddit, but unfortunately this community is pretty inactive.
Are you aware that lemm.ee shut down? Any communities will need to be recreated on another instance.
